US Patent Issued to Shibaura Machine on July 22 for "Additive manufacturing system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,142, issued on July 22, was assigned to Shibaura Machine Co. Ltd. (Chiyoda-ku, Japan).

"Additive manufacturing system" was invented by Daisuke Morimatsu (Numazu, Japan) and Shimpei Fujimaki (Mishima, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An additive manufacturing system includes an additive manufacturing unit configured to shape an object including a plurality of layers, a measurement unit configured to measure a state of each of the plurality of layers, and a control unit. The control unit includes a storage unit configured to store reference information based on internal defect information indicating a defect existing inside a sampl...